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This course is part of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) Master of Science in Engineering Online (MSOL) program. It is available only to students pre-approved by HSSEAS. For more information visit msol.ucla.edu.
EC ENGR 231A. Information Theory: Channel and Source Coding. (Instructor: Wesel, R.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course 131A. Fundamentals information compression, transmission, processing, and learning. Topics include limits and algorithms for lossless data compression, connections to model estimation and learning, channel capacity, rate versus distortion in lossy compression, and basics of information theory for networks.
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